<VV> valiant comments (pun intended!)

[AeroNed at aol.com]

Thank you James, you comments were very insightful. It also points out just  
a few of the reasons VV has lost so many people. The likes of larry claypool,  
Steve Goodman and Ken Hand to name just 3. The off topic post are just too 
much.  Count me among the ever increasing list of Former VV'ers.
 
Ned
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2008 10:54:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
ricebugg at mtco.com writes:

Ned:  Three things.  Or is it four?
1.  You protest  to much.  At a high level, the Valiant, Lancer/Dart, Falcon,
Comet,  Tempest F-85, Buick Spl and the Corvair were all the Big Three's
effort to  answer the same question.  Thus the comments are within the
historic  context of the Corvair.  The Corvair was by far the most
technically  radical answer to the question, with the Tempest being next
most.  All  the others were so uniformly unimaginably conventional (except
for the BOP  aluminum V-8 and the iron V-6 and the slant 4!) to cause me to
yawn, then  and now.  But they sold, and them morphed into "real man sized
cars"  and spawned the muscle car era.

2.  You protest selectively.   While I expressed personnel experience with
our Valiant/Duster, others have  done the same about other cars.  These
rabbit trail discussions allow  us insight into others, and usually dry up in
a couple postings.  But  if I understand your "suggestion", you would have us
be not allowed to  mention any other car than the Corvair, or any problem car
issue which does  not involve a Corvairs.  Daapiggaaintagounaflya.

3. To protest  inconsistently.  Where were you during the absolutely inane
exchanges  about Volts, Ohms, Wattage and LED light bulbs?  I believe  the
original question was about dim dash lights.  I hope the original  questioner
got a useful answer.  But what followed was a waste.   Who cares about the
technical details of light bulbs?!!  When a  question is asked, give us a
list of possible causes and fixes and drop  it.  But noooo, it went on and on
between technical geeks (sorry guys)  to no worthwhile end for the rest of us
so far as I can discern.

I  found the Valiant discussion, such as and as brief as it was,  interesting.
But my delete key was really overworked on the LED light  bulb
technicalities.  So we are even.

Later,
Historically Yours,
James  Rice

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Message:  5
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:10 EDT
From: AeroNed at aol.com
Subject:  Re: <VV> Vaiant (No Vair what so ever)
To:  virtualvairs at corvair.org

I really like this discussion about what is or  isn't a Valiant and when it
went out of production, or didn't. The "you  don't know your MOPARS like the
MOPAR guys know MOPARS" was good to, but  this is a CORVAIR discussion group.
Would it be too much to ask that you  take this off-list? My delete key is
getting  tired.

Ned





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